Dell Dimension 5150 not displaying thumbnails properly

[Guest cam35pilot]

HI,

 

I have a Dimension 5150 that I bought for editing my HD videos and

digital photos for my website. It's out of warranty (sat in a box

while I moved, then didn't get set up for a long time), so I thought

I'd just ask this group about the one problem it has.

 

It will not display thumbnails properly. In a folder of images, or

on the desktop, it will not display the thumbnail in anything but the

lowest resolution (looks like a 1Kb bitmap image, smaller than a

normal thumbnail). It will also not put the thumbnails into normal

"row order". In other words, instead of the folder showing 6 or 8

thumnails across, it will show one, then on the next row down, another

(always diagonally below, not directly below the one above), and after

4-6 rows of one thumbnail, then it will show multiple thumbnails, but

still not properly.

 

I was wondering if this was a Windows XP problem, or a graphics

card problem (integrated card, I believe). It doesn't seem to affect

anything but the thumbnails.

 

Now, when I burn a disk of images, I get the little thing that

comes up saying "thumbs is a program...yadda yadda yadda", so I was

wondering if I could do something to fix the thumbnail display on the

PC. Anyone have any idea?

 

It's just very annoying to have them display in such low

resolution.

 

Rich

[Guest PD43]

Re: Dell Dimension 5150 not displaying thumbnails properly

 

cam35pilot <cam35pilot@aol.com> wrote:

> Now, when I burn a disk of images, I get the little thing that

>comes up saying "thumbs is a program...yadda yadda yadda", so I was

>wondering if I could do something to fix the thumbnail display on the

>PC. Anyone have any idea?

 

Maybe the "yadda yadda yadda" stuff gives evidence to all or part of

your problem.

 

Does Dell have it's own specialized way/program for displaying

thumbnails perhaps?